Places HoboHillbilly Wants to Go

Where European elegance met riverside leisure in early 20th-century Pennsylvania. 

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

At these downtown crossings, pedestrian lights show axe-wielding Vikings instead of the usual walking figures.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

This often-missed monastery, set in a scenic mountain landscape, features unique frescoes, fortifications and legends.

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

Natural rock formation, or biblical artifact that saved Earth's wildlife two by two?

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.